Voltaire Foundation Research Showcase: Presentations by postdoctoral researchers from Voltaire Foundation and Turin Humanities Programme (Fondazione 1563)

14/11/2025, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm

VF Research Showcase

Friday 14 November 2025

Presentations by postdoctoral researchers from Voltaire Foundation and Turin Humanities Programme (Fondazione 1563).

Salon, Maison Française d’Oxford

Discussion chaired by Antoine Lilti (Collège de  France).

 

 

 

Chair: Antoine Lilti

 

9.00       VF postdocs presentations

 

Olivier Higgins, ‘After Frederick: German Idealism and the Echo of Enlightenment’

Jonas Thorup Thomsen, ‘A Media Revolution in 18th-Century Denmark: The Emergence of Rural Lending Libraries’

 

10-10.15 coffee

 

10.15   Turin Humanities Programme postdocs presentations

 

Caroline Gleason-Mercier, ‘Becoming a Fugitive Wife: Julie Candeille’s Catherine, ou La belle fermière

Sam Harrison, ‘Can the cannibal speak? Reasonable and unreasonable people-eating in the French Enlightenment’

Morgan Golf-French, ‘Who were the Peguinen? Race, confusion, and career opportunities at eighteenth-century Göttingen’

 

11.45-12 coffee

 

12-1pm

Presentation of OV (Oxford University Voltaire)

Nicholas Cronk, Gillian Pink, Alison Oliver, Dan Barker, Zoe Screti

 

1-1.45pm lunch

 

2.15-3pm      Taylor Institution, Voltaire Room – organised by Nick Hearn

Exhibition of items acquired with William Barber Fund

Voltaire Foundation

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